SENATE BILL: ...Mental Health Reform Act of 2013 (Failed)

[MaxQue]

Doesn't this Senate ends in two days?
I thought than all outstanding bills died when changing Senates.

[MaxQue]

Since voting deadlines will probably begins soon and we have no text, what will happen?

Perhaps a better use of the committees would be to work on such empty bills and fill them with content BEFORE they reach the floor.

[MaxQue]

Well, I can't say I know much about CHPs or currently healthcare law.

And I don't why anyone would oppose CHPs having to have a section focusing on mental healthcare.

[MaxQue]

Don't you remember way back in the day, Maxy? When you were one of the votes for the Healthcare law. The CHPs were created as part of that law as part of the administration of the services and so forth. There are five of them, contiguous to the regions, with the membership as defined in the relevant section of the bill linked above (while it was amendmend in 2012, this portion wasn't altered).

Well, I thought than so-called Fritzcare was replaced by the "New Atlasian Healthcare".

[MaxQue]

Yes, stigma is a big problem.
People are afraid of mentally ill people. People around tham think it's their fault, the other are afraid since they aren't like them.

We must insist on mental illness being an illness. If you get bronchitis, you aren't looked like you're wierd. Mental illnesses must not be considered differently than other illnesses in own attitude towards them, Many of them are due to biochimical disbalances, which are like other, non-mental illnesses.

Probably not very clear, through.

[MaxQue]

Well, about infrastructure, my question is "How is the infrastructure is, currently?".

What are the issues? Lack of them? Them being in a state of disrepair? Bad geographical distribution? Normal building maintenance?

[MaxQue]

Giving the power to a region is obviously causing a problem at this very moment.

[MaxQue]

For the record, I think than neither the SoIA, the SoEA or the Ag should have "moderating" duties. Only the GM must.

And I don't like the word "moderator" for that, I prefer something as "animator" or some kind of "Game Master" (oh, same initials!). Perhaps it's my RPG side showing, through.

[MaxQue]

Check this and see if it has a list of the areas where there shortages or maybe even a map. Superique will need it when the time comes.
http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/shortage/hpsas/updates/09012011mentalhpsas.html


I could load this one at least, but it jammed and then crashed.

It's a list of areas with shortages...

200 pages long. It lists all catchment areas and facilities with mental health care shortage in 2011.

[MaxQue]

The amendment has been adopted.


The question is simple really. How do we expand support for the family members of mental health patients so as to reduce a tremendous disincentive regarding going to get treatment, that of finances?

I don't need a statistic to tell me this exists and it has served to create many of the problems I have to contront because of the environment it produces.

Doesn't finances isn't a problem, given Tricare?

[MaxQue]

The amendment has been adopted.


The question is simple really. How do we expand support for the family members of mental health patients so as to reduce a tremendous disincentive regarding going to get treatment, that of finances?

I don't need a statistic to tell me this exists and it has served to create many of the problems I have to contront because of the environment it produces.

Doesn't finances isn't a problem, given Tricare?

What do you mean? Tricare is the military's program that we are phasing out and rolling into Fritzcare.

Sorry, always confused names. But, I mean, the costs for families of mental healthcare should already be covered under Fritzcare, no?

[MaxQue]

Okay then forget Australia and forget mental health systems in general and so forth, just focus on the financial disincentive and how to work against that. The last piece of the puzzle and lets try not to break the bank here.

Shouldn't mental healthcare be integrated into Fritzcare?

[MaxQue]

Aye ftr.

[MaxQue]

Aye.

Perfectible bill, which surely can be improved, but better than nothing.